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  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

by leading multifaceted lives themselves. They can reward employees for the quality and results of their work rather than the time put into it. And they can enforce reasonable work hours, require vacations, and take other steps to protect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

change the structure, processes, and behavior of an organization while at the same time developing commitment that ensures execution. SFP is also a research method. By applying SFP iteratively to new and challenging situations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2022
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

preferred me to be more academic—which was a long shot.” Continental drift: “After college I taught physical education at a school in Oxford, and some Rhodes Scholars who lived in my building encouraged me to go to the United States. I... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

should be developing a half-dozen or more leaders who could be long-term CEO candidates. The ideal future CEO should be at least 10 years from the company’s typical retirement age, so they have sufficient time in office to make... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 01 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

alternative—in this case, continuing to search for a viable site. The next step is to double-check your calculations by comparing the hypothetical deals. If Jim discovers that he'd subjectively prefer the orchard property, then he should... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 11 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

savings from the loans to lower taxes. "This action is consistent with politicians seeking reelection by catering to taxpayers' preference for low taxes, which represents a likely channel for the previous result on the effects on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • Web

SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog

after HBS, spending time learning about what’s happening in space will make you a smarter and more innovative leader. If you’re already planning (and even coming from) a career in space, you know that HBS has staked out a leading position... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for a royalty and when it prefers to use the property directly. We find that variable royalty arrangements that depend on either audited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

Here we explore the effects of "sleeping on it" on preference-based decisions among multiple options. In two studies, individuals viewed several attributes describing a set of items and were asked to select their preferred item... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

consumption, reviewing research in which people forgo positive physical consumption—and even choose negative physical consumption—in order to engage in conceptual consumption. Finally, we outline how conceptual consumption informs research examining both View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

hard time focusing on anything else. Q: Can you talk a bit about the rationale behind using insights from other sectors to accelerate innovation in energy? A: Part of the idea is to bring attention to industries that have experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

The Path out of Polarization

good to have the voices on the left or on the right to make it clear why one direction would be preferable to another. But now, when the extremes are disagreeing over facts and they’re shouting, they don’t give me View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information
  • 29 Apr 2016
  • News

The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

it. My preferred artistic medium is music—I played the piano and violin and sang competitively from age five through high school. I don’t have as much time for it anymore, but, growing up, it helped me to... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Who Are We?

long history in the European market, gaining iconic status in England in the 1970s and '80s. But now, on the verge of bankruptcy, the company was having a hard time making payroll. Seeing an opportunity, Cohen's firm bought it and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

sufficient to fuel international expansion. The author presents advice on overcoming the paradox but warns it can be a lengthy process. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/12/why-you-arent-buying-venezuelan-chocolate/ar/1# Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

responsibilities, and talk to candidates about the opportunity to take on multiple assignments so they develop a well-rounded profile before becoming a director.” The Benefit of Just In Time Hiring Companies with established recruiting... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

motivators, and preferences for the type of skills you want to build, problems you want to solve, business models you want to understand, and environment you want to work in. What you come up with can be thought of as your ‘career... View Details
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that used all... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

restructuring that left the Panigoros with a 34.1 percent equity stake in Medco. Two other large shareholders are now looking to sell their combined stake of 50.9 percent, and have selected Temasek, the Singapore government's investment arm, as their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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